Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] production VMWARE ESX servers

[Moray M. <mmc...@ox...>]

Thanks for the tips - I will experiment and get back to you...
M. 


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Moray McConnachie
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Oxford Analytica  http://www.oxan.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Heiko Zuerker [mailto:he...@zu...] 
Sent: 12 February 2009 18:58
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] production VMWARE ESX servers

I also use 1.44 MB floppy images for my config for all VMs.
I have a lot of VMs running and many with disks assigned to them. Make
sure you use LSI for the SCSI controller if you use DL 1.3.
I also selected Ubuntu 32 bit as the guest OS, then you can turn on para
virtualization.

Heiko

Quoting John Jore <jo...@jo...>:

> Hi!
> I run two DL VMs on VMware ESX. My setup is boot from ISO and 
> configuration on floppy image.
> I also use Guest tagging of VLANs to reduce the number of NICs needed 
> to be presented to each DL.
>
> No harddrive for the VMs is neeed in this configuration.
>
>
> Regards,
> John Jore
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Moray McConnachie [mmc...@ox...]
> Sent: 12 February 2009 16:23
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] production VMWARE ESX servers
>
> I want to virtualise my production devil-linux servers onto our shiny 
> new-ish VMWARE ESX servers, now that I have enough network ports to do

> so redundantly.
>
> How do other people do this? Obviously I can use ISOs in our 
> datastore, but what might be the best way to handle the config 
> element? I suppose I could put the config on the ISOs and then update 
> it manually, but that seems a bit labour-intensive, and our mail 
> gateway DL box changes its config every other day. Using a real USB 
> device would break clustering of course.
>
> It would be nice if there was a way where save-config from the box 
> itself would still work... Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Moray
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   Heiko Zuerker
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